PodCastle 392: The Lady’s Maid - a podcast by Escape Artists, Inc

* Author : Carlea Holl-Jensen

* Narrator : Kim Lakin-Smith

* Host : Keffy R. M. Kehrli

* Audio Producer : Peter Wood

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Guest hosted by Keffy Kehrli, editor and host of the Glittership podcast

The Lady’s Maid

by Carlea Holl-Jensen

Sometimes she wonders about the girls whose heads her mistress wears. Sometimes, though not often, she wonders where they came from, who they loved. She wonders who, if anyone, keeps their memory now.

Mostly, though, she doesn’t trouble herself. It is her lady’s right to take what she desires. Everything is hers, as far as the eye can see: the mirrored sitting room and the marble statues in the courtyard and the deer in the forests to the east and the endless farmland, now fallow, to the west—all hers. Any passing milkmaid with a handsome head of curls, any traveling fortuneteller with changeable sea-green eyes—they are all hers, too, if she wishes it. This is the order of things.

 

 

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